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Considering that searching for a hidden opponent would require an action it seems like a very desirable outcome to me. The movement not so much, unless opportunity atracks or booming blade (or similar) would trigger.

Alright, folk! One more slot to fill and we can get started! This is the part where I point out that there’s a reason there are always so many repeat contestants in these things. Competing in an IRON DM tournament is a literal life-altering endeavor. There is no form of writing quite like it...

Sorry to hear that, but hopefully you’ll get a chance for the next one. Or maybe the spin-off.

Perhaps some of last year’s contestants and/or alternates might like to join in? @practicalm @Neurotic @Kobold Stew @LongGoneWriter @Deuce Traveler

I assure you, the IRON DM Tournament is a test of endurance. Among other things. Maybe a little less of that than in the old days (when all the matches were only 24 hours), but it’s still one of the elements.

Sorry to hear it. Hope to see you next time. Or in the spin-off, maybe. Edited to add: But be sure to sign up for the IRON DM newsletter to make sure you’re notified! Ask @el-remmen for details on that.

At last, the time has come around again! Do you have what it takes to succeed in a tournament that began 20 years ago to test your mettle in three grueling rounds of intense and competitive adventure-writing, in order to become this year's IRON DM? What is IRON DM? The founder says it best...

In the high-level game that I ran before Tasha’s came out, the sorcerer/paladin used to regularly twin booming blade or green flame blade with an upcast shadow blade (and then would often follow with a quickened one). This was an exceptionally potent combination, especially on crits (with...

Are you talking about the shields? If they’re accurate to the book (and if my memory serves), they repel faster forces (particularly ballistics), thus the need for a melee fighting style with intentionally slowed-down strikes. The downside being that a lasers hitting them will trigger a...

…But…historically, the berserkers were considered supernatural and/or magical.

It would be more accurate to say that Amazon paid the Tolkien Estate half a billion dollars to negotiate a new license, the details of which are as of yet unknown to outside parties. If what we are seeing actually are the Trees while they live*, then that license must include at least a little...

To be fair, half of that was spent on securing a license.

Just rereading this thread. I like these categories, but it occurs to me that I would also really like a “Plot Hook” category. A good plot hook can make an adventure. And bad ones can break it.

That thing would make a great mini for D&D!

I think, these days, “crusade” is an equally loaded term.

Pretty sure Herbert called it a crusade a couple of times in the text. We can’t assume it’s an actual “change” in the movie just from that. I mean, we could, but it would be an assumption lacking in sufficient supporting data. Of course, the decision to call it a crusade in the trailer is...

Yeah, I’ve always seen him as a monk. In fact, he’s the example I go to when I’m envisioning a Pseudo-European/British-style D&D monk. (Or mystic, in BECM D&D.) Drunken Master is pretty perfect too.

Why? The poster’s current status has no bearing on whether or not future internet generations find value in the post. Respect is respect. The respectee doesn’t need to know about it. For example, folk are (probably?) still giving XP to Gary Gygax and he definitely hasn’t been active in the...

That was only the first half of the season. The second half is finished, but Netflix decided to divide it in half and stagger it’s release.

I did not get that impression from that after-show. But, also, Kevin Smith tends to speak off the cuff when he’s off-script (as he clearly was in that after-show), so I don’t read too much into his exact words. What was evident is that he was clearly excited about the show (and finally being...